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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-03-25

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CTA.11 transient advertisements to be paid in advance, and none will be inserted unless for a definite time montioned AGENTS. The following persons are authorized to re. eeive money on subscriptions for The Rkpudli cam, ana receipt tnereior . Dr. J. B. Ccocxr, Homer, Ohio. , Oio. Mooai, ' Ratmoxu Buaa, Jt S. D. JoXKa, 'David Ris, HiMar L. Osbosm, Thomas Haxck, W.O.STaoxo. " Rev. T. M. Finnit, Utica, Delaware, Granville Cbesterville, Bennington, Marengo, Fredericktown, Martinsburgh, Danville, )Jno. Satt, ' . From the ManBfield Herald. A SONG OF KANSAS. . BY J. M. JOM.V. Itus ye freemen I up ye brave And gird your armor on ! reuse ve sons of patriot Biros I Vj. sons of Washington I Awake ! awake ! do ye not hear ; The shouts of ruffian bands, Who sacrifice on freedom's bier The noblest of our laud ? Hark ! hear you not your sisters cry, . Borne o'er the western plain T Oh I will ye stand supinely by And tee your brothers slain ? Are ye the sons of patriot sires -. Who died for liberty ; And will ye quench pure freedom's fires, And tow to slavery? Shall that fair land, fret since the dawn Of fair creation's morn, And destined for the happy homes Of millions yet unborn, Tct echo with the pleading groans And cries of tortured slaves ? Turbid it, Oh our fathers shades, Oh God, our country save. Aid, aid, for those who join the strife, Aid for friends and brothers ; Aid for the atrieben widowed wife; Aid the childless mother. Yield not, flinch not, brothors, friends. But with a freeman's might Strike for your homes, fear not the end, . . Ye battle for tho right. "Pp 1 op t ye freemen ! up ye brave I And gird your armor on, Arouseye sons of patriot sirea t Up I sons of Washington. BY AND BY! 1 " BY PAVID B.VTIS. fhere is an angel ever near, When toil aid trouble vex and try, That bids our fainting hearts take cheer, ; v And whispers to us "By and by," We hear it at our mother' knee. With tender smile and love-lit eye She grants some boon or childish plea, In these soft accents "By and by." What visions crowd the youthful breast ' What holy aspirations high ,J?erve that young heart to do it best, And wail the promise "By and by." 'The maiden lilting sad and lone,' ' ' f " : Her thoughts half uttered with a sigh, . Kuraes the grief she will not own, ' . , ' And dreams bright dreams of-"By and by." 'The pale young wife dries up her tears, ' u 'And still her restless infant's cry, 'To eatch the Coming step, hut hears, How adly whispered "By and by." , Aid maahood with his strength and will f : '" To breast life' ilia and fate defy, Though fame and fortune be lis, still t Ha pUos.that lie in "Bj. anby." ", The destitute, whoee Scanty fare ' ' " " Ths weary task can scarce supply, Cheat the grim visage of Despair ' ; With Hope's fair promie "By and by." ....... - :' The million whom oppression wrong , , r Send np (o heaven their wsiling cry, , ' ' And writhing in the tyrant's throngs,'"'." ' ' SUU hope for freedom "By and by ' ' .... . . - i .'.: 3(,n.i "i . :i. i:. u Thn ever o'er life' rugged, way, . ( J )" Thi Dgl, bending from the sky, 4" gaiM our sorrows, auj oj u 1 Wltfthetiwertwhlsperiog'By !.", '.Plain Truth. An Affeoting Scene In a Western loj; Truth not Fiction . Meeilug of stockholders CAS8ITJS M. CLAY. '-' ' Cabin. nw tttk nnrn avti pmvv. n. n The following from the Enter Nows Letter, expresses stern truths which every Northern man ought to lay to heart: The same power which threatens Kansas, with the most despotio control over its liberty of thought, words and actions can reach us too and can ordain, that unless all these godlike gifts of our nature are con Gnned to Southern policy and to a wickedness which makes the world shudder, we loo shall have brought to our subjugation some portion of that "military power" which is even now, we presume on its fearful march, to crush the little army of martyrs, who are struggling to plant the banner of freedom on the beautiful plains of the great West, That banner was fearfully Towered in New England, when her Senator dared make his first compromise with Southern sin and infamy; it has since been draggled in the blood of poor fugitive who sought the shelter of our bills ana mountains. We have been frightened by Southern threats npd charmed by Southern descriptions of the beauties of slavery into slaves. We have yielded one point after another, until there is but a tare point left, whereon we ourselves may stand. We gave the South a. resident who has distinguished himself by a sub serviency and want of principle, beyond even the most sanguine hopes of his slave-holding patrons. We gave up our free soil, our rocks and our mountains, to the slave-hunter and his blood-hounds. We relinquished our right, and with it our power to protect a fellow creature, though he might come to us with his poor body covered with scars of a whole life's bondage and his soul crushed by a cruelty, unpnr-olelltd even in hell. We see mothers, taking the lives of their own children, when the choice is death, or the slavery they have just escaped from and our arm is paralyzed by on act of Congress, so that we may not defend them and in Kansas the time is soon coming when even to look protection or sympathy, will bring down upon the offender, such force as will be ready at hand lor such crime against the majesty of Southern military law. We by our votes, have helped make 'that law and it will react unless suppressed in Kan sas, upon us. we nave piayea the part or La Fontaine s rat in the cheese, ana be cause we could sit under our own vine and fig tree, and the evil ha9 not come to our firesides, we have persuaded ourselves that it did not exist, and it has been fashiona ble, to stigmatize those who believed in the great doctrine of retribution and in the rights of three millions of slaves, whose only offence was the different tinge of their skins as "radicals abolitionisis and fa natics." The end is not vet and the time may not be far distant, when, if deliverance does come from our present degradation, the Saviors of our country will be found among the ranks of those, who are now a by-word and reproach. It is fearful to think what tremendous issues, may depend upon the vote of New Hampshire at her next election. May God so open the eyes of her citizens to the fearful crisis in our country's existence that throwing aside all party distinctions and party selfishness, for office, they may come up to the help of the weak against the mighty, and may redeem our country, before it is too late, from a curse nnd a sin, which now sits on her like an incubus of Hell. mistakes of a Night. The following ludicrous incident occurred, recently, on board the night train from New York. Two married couple took their seat in the cars at 'New York bound for Boston, in ch ae proximity, and about 0 o'clock they both indulged in balmy slumbers, the heads of their wives reslin upon their husbands' shoulders. When the cars reached Worcester, the gentleman stepped out, and the ludics, apparently exhausted, slept on. The delay was brief, and on entering the cars, the husbands whose eyes were scarcely opened, exchanged seats, and in a few moments resumed their natural positions, and were in the Ian of dreams. At Farmingham the oars stopped again, when one of the ladies asked: "Will you have time to get mo a drink of water here?'.' The affrighted gentleman, not recognizing the music of his wife's voice exclaimed! .. "By heavers, have I made a mistake? This is not Tilly!" "No," excluimed the lady, and you ain't my husband!" "Perhaps we had better change seats," exclaimed the husband in the seat immediately in the rear, who had awoke, for "there's a slight mistake here." The second lady, too much fatigued, did not awake, and as the temporary husband endeavored to shift his burden so as to move she merely ejaculated, impatiently "Do keep still." : , Badly Cornered. . A traveller, fatigued with tho monotony of loner ride through a sparsely settled sec tion of country , rode up to a small lad who was eneaced in trimming and dressing out a sickly field of corn, and relieved himself thus: i.. ; '. "My young friend, it seems to me your corn is rather small." "Yes, daddy planted the small kind." : ' "Ah; but it appears to look Tather yellowish too." 1 'Yes, sir, daddy, planted the yellow kind.'' "From present appearances, my lad,'you won't aeX more than half a crop." : "Just half, stranger daddy planted it on halves." " ' The horseman nroceded on his war, and ha not been known to speak to a boy since, He calls them, bores. , ., , . , , r t "'." ' Hi Mill The Bible is the only true guide to conscience, - May neither spirit nor tne let ler of it teaching be excluded from our puDJiq school .MPa ,.j ,,: ,, .i, BoTAHicAt.-p'The tree, la known by its wood.wWcb it knowri by U ; It was nearly midnight of Saturday night that a messenger came to Col. 8 requesting him to go the cabin of a settlor some three miles down the river, and see his daughter, a girl of fourteen, who was supposed to be dying. Col. S. awoke me and asked me to accompany him, and I consented, taking with me the small pack ace of medicines which I always carriod in the forest ; but I learned soon there was no need of these, for her disease was past cure. "She is a strango child," said the Col.; "her father is as strange a man. Tbey live together alone on the bank of the riv cr. They came here three years ago, and no one knows whence or why. He has money, and is a keen shot. The child has been wasting away for ayear past. I have seen her often, and she seems gifted with a marvellous intellect, bhe seems some times to be the on v hone of her father." We had reached the hut of the settler in less than half an hour, and entered it reverently. The scene was one that cannot easily be forgotten. There were books and eviden ces of luxury and taste lying on the rude table near the small window, and the bed furniture on which the dying girl lay, was as soft as the covering of a dying queen. I was, of course; startled, never having heard of these people before; but knowing it to be no uncommon thing lor misanthropes to go into the woods to live and die, I was content to ask no explanations, more especially as the death hour was evidently near. She was a fair child, with masses of long black hair lying over the pillow. Her eyes were dark, piercing, and as they met mine she started slightly, but smiled and looked upward. I spoke a few words to her father, and turning to her, asked her if 6ho knew her condition. "I know that my Redeemer liveth," said she in a voiae whose melody was like the sweetest tones of an Eolian. You may imagine that her answer startled me, and with a few words of like import, I turned from her. A half hour passed, and she ppoke in that same deep, richly melodious voice: "Father, I am cold; lie down beside me," and the old man lay down beside his dying child, and she twined her emaciated arms around his neck, and murmur ed in a dreamy voice, "dear father, dear father." "My child," said the old man, "doth the flood seem deep to thee?" "Nay, father, for my soul is strong." "Seest thou the other shore?" "I see it, father; and its banks are green with immortal verdure." "Hearest thou tho voices of its .inhabitants?""I hear them, futher, as tho voices of angels falling from afar in the still and solemn night-time; and they call ine. Mother's voice, too, father, oh, I heard it then!" "Doth she speak to thee?" "She speakcth in tones most heavenly." "Doth she smile?" "An angel smile! But I am cold cold cold! Father, there's a mist in the room. You'll be lonely, lonely. Is this death, father?" Praying to the Point. A certain lawyer who, whilom, dwelt in one of our New England towns, noted for bis over-reachings and short-comings, during a revival came under conviction, and requested prayers for the furtherance of his conversion. His appeal was responded to by one of the saints, an eccentric but very pious old man.honest, plain, blunt, square-toed and flat-footed, who thus went at it: "We do most earnestly entreat thee, O, Lord, to sanctify our peniient brother, here; fill his heart with goodness and grace, so that he shall hereafter forsake his evil ways and follow in the right path. We do know, however, that it is lequired of him who has appropriated worldly goods to himselt uniawiuiiy ana dishonestly, that he shall make restitution four-fold; but we do beseech thee to nave mercy on this our erring brother, as it would be impossible for him to do that, and let bim off for the best he can do without beggaring himself entirely, by his paying twenty-five cents on the dollar." The next supplicant at the same meeting was an elderly maiden who got her living by going into different families and spinning for them., one, aiso, naa oeen famous for her short-comings never giving full counts on her yarn; the forty threads to a knot was a point which she never reached. The blunt old man thus briefly disposed of her case: "Reform, O, Lord, the heart of thy handmaid here before thee we beseech thee; and wilt thou enable her to count forty!" Boston Pott. Human Life. Prof. Longfellow says of human life: "Ah, this is a beautiful world; indeed I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and heaven is not far off; and then it changes suddenly, and it is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us there are bright days like this when we feel we could take the world in our arms. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn in our hearts or hearths, and all without and within is dismal, cold and dark. Every heart has its secret sorrow, whioh the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." j ; ; . A Queer Sebmon. An old preacher once look for his text, "Adam, where art thou ?" and divided tho subject into three parts. 1st. AH men are some where. Sd. Some men are where they ought not to be. 3d. Unless they take care, they will soon find themselves where they would rather not be. ... . ' .'. ; ' ' i . i m i i - , . ,9It too often hapens, that a man is more respected; for wealth than for his nriw' ..; .' ; '' :'- ' "' -';''; The following home thrust is from the Cayuga Chief, at the rum-sellers and tho friends of the restaurant ; "Would to God that the Maine law could have passed fifty years ago." We turned to find an old lady on the seat back of us, venturing her wish in tho midst of an earnest discussion between a Maine law Yankee and a red nosed member of the bottle fraternity. "Yes," continued the old lady, "fifty years ago. My husband would not Lave then crone down into a drunkard' crave, my daughters mar ried drunkards and lived lives of sorrow, or my boys have died in jail or in the mad bouse. Look at me," and with something of a fire kindling up rn her old eyes, she laid her bony hand on the arm of the liq uor dealer, "and see a wreck of vour ao. cursed business. I was young, had enough of this World's goods, and my heart was full of happiness and hopel My God, sir, how they. have poured desolation into this old heart! 1 am often bitter, and do you wonder? Such as you robbed me of all my children, and at eighty years of age, I am alone do you hear? alone! And let me tell you, this hand never wronged the least of God's creatures. But you wronged me. You, sir, talk about the domicil and say t's sacred. God forgive; but I remember the day when my home was en tered by constables and skinned of all. I remember when the Bible my mother gave me was taken for drink. I remember when my first born was laid in my arms from a drunken husband's hands and its little life blood ran warm into my bosom from its wounds. Why, sir," and the old woman half raised in her seat, "in God's holy name did you come into my house to rob and kill? Was that constitutional? I have one child living in the asylum a maniao. It's all the work of your hands. There is blood there! Blood, sir! Better, sir, have a millstone around your neck than to sell rum. The curse of the widow is upon you. It will follow you. The serpents that you send out will return to destroy you and yours. Give me that bottle!" Involuntarily as it almost seemed, the liquor dealer handed the old lady the bottle which he held in his hand. She dashed it out of the car window and slowly took her seat. The people who had crowded around while the car was stoppinor, to hear the conversation, slowly and thoughtfully dispersed to their seats, and the now cowering liquor dealer looked the very embodiment of humiliation and shame. With a deep sigh ho turn ed away, our own faith made stronger by the ssrmon we had listened to. Ahl how many would have escaped the bitterness ot life, had rum been banished in their day. NOBODY. If nobody's noticed you, you must be small, If nobody's slighted you, you must be tall ; if nobody's bowed to you you must be low, If nobody's kissed you you're ugly, we know, If nobody's envied you you're a poor elf. If nobody's flattered you flatter yourself. If nobody's cheated you you are a knave, If nobody's hated you you are a slave, If nobody's called you a "fool" to your face, Somebody's wished for your back, in its place; If nobody's called you a "tyrant" or "scold," Somebody thinks you of a spiritless mold, If nobody knows of your fault but "a friend," Nobody'U miss of them at the world's end; If nobody clings to your purse like a fawn, Nobody '11 run like a hound when it's gone; If nobody's eaten his bread from your store, Nobody'U call you "a miserly bore;" If nobody's slandorcd you here is our pen Sign yourself Nobody, quick as you can. Sunday Schools. The Methodist have found by careful at tention to the statistics of their body, that the Sunday school is the great nursery of the Church. An exchange says: "The number of hopeful conversions in the Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the past year, wasseventeen thou sand four hundred and ninety-four, or more than half the net increase of the member ship of the Church, which was thirty thou- sana seven nunarea ana uuny-iwo. inuring the last eight years.the aggregate number of hopeful conversions in their Sunday Schools, was between ninety-four andninety-five thousand, or one eighth of the whole present membership of the church." Campbell, of Ohio. We bee; to say to those Know Nothing editors who are concluding from Mr. L. D. Campbell s speech at the Know Noth ing ratification meeting in this city on Wed-1 nesday night last, mat lie ana tuose oi nis State he represents (as an American party leader) are about to support Mr. Fillmore, that they reckon without their host. He is clearly, perfectly willing that the Fillmoreites of Washington shall shout his own praises when appearing before them to berate the Pope, tho Irish, and the Dutch. But he has not the slightest idea of throwing his influence, or the weight of his exertions, in the Presidential canvass, in favor of any man who may not be nominated by the Republican party proper. He is evidently playing with the National Know Nothings, so that when he does come out in favor of the candidate who stands with him on the slavery question, he will carry to that individual's support as large a number of the Trimble and Scott Harrison class of Ohio Whigs, as possible. ' It has become, we take it, apparent to all, that his opposition to the Republican party manager before a Speaker was chosen, was an affair personal to himself only; not being dictated by a difference on his part with them with reference to a single measure or principle.By-the-by, we should like to bear the explanation! that may be given on the stump in Richmond, Raleigh, or Nashville, by Know Nothing orators, or the deafening shouts that went up in the Know Nothing ratification meetinz in this city over the speeoh of Mr. Camobell. It strikes us that our Know Nothina fellow-citiien of Washing ton hardly yet know where they stand on the leading issues of the daywhether with Mr. Campbell or agsiast him. Wath. No Assistance for Conneotioni West, STOCKHOLDERS TO BE ALLOWED TEREST ON THEIR STOCK. IN. An Issue of 250,000 Worth of Bond Authorised, 1 i ' i i ! An adjourned general meeting of the stockholders of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, convened, agreeably to call, yesterday, at ten o'clock, at the rooms of the company, on Fifth street. On motion of Gen. Robinson, Gen. Dwight Jam's, of Ohio, was called to the chair, and Mr. N. Veedcr appointed Secretary.After beinc nronerlv organized. the meet ing adjourned to the Board of Trade Rooms. Gen. Robinson, chairman of the com mittee to whom the matter had been referred at the annual meeting in January last, presented the following report, embodying the views of a majority of the committee: At the annual meeting of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, held on the 24th of January, 18S6. the stockhol ders appointed a committee, to whom two subjects were referred, and directed them to report at an adjourned general meeting, to be held on 30 days' notice, which was given, and the meeting called for the 11th of March. The first subject referred to the commit tee related to the Springfield, Mt. Vernon and Pittsburg Railroad, and the second to the Darlington and Newcastle. Uoe of the resolutions of stockholders required the engineer of this company to examine and report upon the condition of the a. M. v. fc V. It, R which has been done, and his report of the directors of this company, and printed with it, is the condi tional agreement entered into on the 7th of November, which tho Mt. Vernon company ask this company to confirm. witn regard to the payment of the un paid balance, beins $33,600 vet due of 8100,000, made by this company to the M. V. company, tho committee believe the contract entered into between tho two companies at the time when the subscrin tion was made, is binding upon both, and whenever its terms are complied with by tne ju. v . company, they must be by this company. I. hey believe, however, that an arrange ment can be made by which this company may avoiu tne inconvenience ol paying in cash the remaining instalments. The conditional quadruple agreement of the 17tb of November was entered into by the President of the P. R. R. company, the O. & P. R. R., the L. M. R. R., and the8.M.V. &P. R.R. company. Its objects are clearly set forth in the documents which have been laid before the stockholders, and it is for them to say whether they tnina mat tne interests ot this company would be promoted thereby. Its object is to complete a new, short and greatly improved line to Cincinnati, which has been long contemplated by this company, and is, we believe, essential to its full success. The amount of aid asked for is $60,000, for which $100,000 of the 7 per cent, mortgage bonds of the M. V. company are prepared to be given. To render the agreement binding it must be assented to by all the four companies forming this grand line. The Little Miami company has already given its assent. In view of the importance of the line, especially as a means of insuring a large local business now lost to this company, and as a protectorate against future com petition for the Cincinnati and Louisville business, the committee recommend the adoption of the following: Jiesolved, That the President of this company be authorised and instructed to confirm and carry out the conditional agreement of the 7th of November last in relation to the S. M. V. & P. R. R., provided that the permanent debt of this company shall not be augmented thereby, and the same can be arranged without financial em barrassment. The committee have also considered the subject of the Darlington and New Castle Railroad, which was brought before the stockholders by the Board of Trade of Pittsburgh. Every recommendation of that highly respectable body is worthy of care- lul consideration, while the committee is constrained to believe that this company is not in a condition, at this time, to aid any company in which it is not interested, but as stockholders, they are free to say that whenever the road from New Castle to Dar lington, a distance of 13 miles, is prepared lor the iron, by local subscription to its stock, they believe that this company ought to render such aid as its circumstances may permit, to procure the iron to complete the road. Pilttlurgh Post. The Germans Moving. A large and enthusiastic meeting of Ger mans opposed to the extension of Slavery, wan held at Cincinnati on the evening of the 14th inst. Councilman Hassaurck addressed the meeting, and urged the Ger mans to range themselves on the side of freedom in the next Presidential election. The following pithy resolution, among others was adopted: 6. "That in Republics, to labor for free dom should never be a crime. A President who cannot discriminate between efforts for liberty and those for slavery, and pronounce both equally criminal, evinces only his total incapacity to be tho chief magistrate of a free people. Charles Keemelin, iq. addressed the meetim? in oonosiiion to the Nebraska bill. the Miami Tribe, and the pro-slavery tendencies of the democratic party.' ' . . X-The New York Express says: "Balls, weddings, dinners, parties of all kinds prevail. Extravagance greater than ever. Jewels and diamonds more abundant. Even 112,000 Russian sable capes are now seen in the streets! .California gold is making fool of us." . . . . How to get a good wife take a smart girl, and go to the parson. ' ';! . . v . ..' v -J ' , . ' it 1A ; ,. :. CAS8IU3 M. CLAY. KENTUCKY APPEALS; A Southern correspondent of the Norti cm Christian Advocate gives the following as Cssius M. Clay's mode of managing his Kentucky audiencies by "moral suasion." It is characteristic of that chivalrous, tal ented gentleman. There is no doubt of his being "pluck." He sends an appointment to a given place to lecture at a certain time; perhaps some of the natives will send word that he will not be allowed to lecture there; he sends word back that he will lecture there according to previous notice. The time comes, a great crowd is coiuctea to near the lecturer, or Bee the mon; presently tue lecturer comes, he passes directly through the crowd, mounts me iorum, waves ins hand for attention, all eyes are turned to ward tho sneaker. He commences with a firm, clear and decided tone of voice the following remarks: "Gentlemen, says he, i nave a tew pre Iimlnaiies to settle, previous to entering unon the main subject of discussion. I want to make three short appeals to three classes of persons, whereupon he holds up a small Bible. There, gentlemen, says he, is the great charter or record of human rights, on which all laws of equality are based deserving the name of law this is my appeal to the religious portion of societyand lays it down on the stand before him. Then he holds up the Constitution of the United States. Here, gentlemen, says he, is the bond of our Union, the noble Constitution of our glorious Republic, which says that all men are born free and equal, with certain inalienable rights, tc. This is my appeal to gentlemen, to patriots, and all true-hearted Americans, and places it with the Bible before him. Then he puts his hand into his pocket and brings out an enormous six shooter, holding it up before the audience he exclaims: And here, gentlemen, is a six shooter, every barrel of which is heavily loaded with pow-der and cold lead. This is ray appeal to the mobocrats, and I will blow its contents through the heart of the first man who offers to lay his hands on me to silence me in my native State, or to gag free speech in my presence. This he lays down upon the stand with his former appeals, ready for action; then he commences a perfect storm against the peculiar institution; enough to wring a sweat of old Kentucky from every pore. By this time all are awed into submissive silence. Such, sir, is the celebrated nephew of Old Henry Clay in his own State." Sketch of John Calvin. If personal considerations chiefly win ap plause, then no one merits our sympathy and our admiration mote man uamn; me young exile from France, who achieved an immortality of fame before he was twenty- eight years of age; now boldly reasoning with the King of France for religious liberty, now venturing as an apostle of truth to carry the new doctrines into the hearts of J i ,i e. .1.. f. Italy, anu naraiy escaping irom tue iury 1 . " . .1 . . ! Ot a papal persecution; me purest writer, the keenest dialectician of his country;push-inp- free inquiry to its utmost verge, and yet valuing inquiry solply as the means of arriving at hxed conclusions, ine ngnt oi his geniou&jcattered the mask of darkness which superstition had held for centuries before the brow of religion. His probity was unquestioned, his morals spotless. His only happiness consisted in his task of glory and of good: for sorrow found its way into all his private relations. He was an exile from his country; he became for a season an exile from his place of exile. As a husband he was doomed to mourn the premature loss of bis wife; as a father he felt the bitter pang or burying bis own child. Alone in the world, alone in strange land, he went forward in his career with serene resignation and inflexible firmness; no love of ease turned him aside from his vigils; no fear of danger-relaxed the nerve of his eloquence; no bodily infirmities checked the incredible activity of bis mind: ana so ne conunuea year after year, solitary and feeble, yet toiling for humanity, till after a life of glory, he bequeathed to his personal heirs, a fortune, in stocks and money, not exceeding two hundred dollars; and to the world a purer reformation, a republican spirit in religion, with tho kindred principles of re publican liberty. oeoroe banchoft. A Good One. The following is from Rogers' Table-talk:Doctor Fordyce sometimes drank a good deal at dinner. He was summoned one evening to see a lady patient, when he was more than halt-seas over, anu con scious that he was so. Feeling her pulse, and finding himself unable to count its beats, he muttered, "JJrunit, oy - r Next morning, recollecting the circumstance, he was greatly vexed; and just as he was thinking what explanation of his behavior he should ofler to the lady, a letter from her was put into his hand. "She too well knew," said the letter, "that he had discovered the unfortunate condition in which she was when he last visited her; and she entreated bim to keep the matter secret, in consideration of the inclosed," (a hundred pound note.) ii hi XyEitocoH Saio." A Gentleman once wrote to a lady whom be had offended by his dilatoriness, and who for a long lime had refused to speak to him. Hi letter was earnest in supplications for for eiveness. Itconoluded with "one word from your lips will make me happy. When and where will you speak it?" ber answer was "next Wednesday at the al tar." To which he sent the following re ply: "I will be there." ; : Qoaia. "Well, Jane, this i a queer worldl" said a tart ipota to hi wife, at breakfast, the other morning. "A set of women philosopher hare just sprung upl" "Indeed," said Jane, "and what do they hold?" "The strangest thing in nature' aid he; "their tongues!" : - ' - :!.- v :' 1 . C 1. .! i : ... . x Villus. .. ' - m ion thaepub Judge John W.ldmond. lican Purt The New York psper. able kilter from Judg Edmot oller, Esq., of Scheoeeedy, !ai fairb . ug j,n)Bnt political asnt in this country. Aa iu, .vmiwv, A lua Wl been a and dis. rity, his prominent and influential D- 'inguished for his talentaand h. ' views are worth considoriiiiff the presen crisis o, ow pBrtiflfc em "P00 the oou" of tha the i. V"J H"tion tL9 Jud his lei. toUnn: . ter comment South on the ...i,.j.. i:. Now, what is to B0, '"e " lhi and what is the renu . JT ' . ' : ' Not appealing to ti. 8 oth;. for theser: aggressions do not flow . rom. tnra: , Not by submitting long m 'lnce; for ; submission, as painful as it l ,a7 !y been-'' has only augmented, and notv diminished.' the evil: . ; : ' Not by laboring longer with e ther of" the old parties, for they have been alike torn to piesoa by the same subserviency,, ' and are now alike powerless for good Or for evil; " And the public sentiment all oyer the country is divided on this great question more than all others. Like Aron's rod, it swallows up all minor questions, and must continuo to do so until the aggressions on public feeling in behalf of thepro-slavery interest shall be arrested, and finally be . made to cease. ' . ! At length the feeling hostile to the ex-" tension of slavery is aroused in the land, and is driven in to activity by these repeatr ed encroachments upon it, and by the admonition which years of unavailing sub-mission have promulgated. At length those that have long entertained that feel-ing have been driven by action over which. they had no control into working in unison ; wiih each other, and to surrender all mjnor .. considerations all old party ties to the single purpose of arresting once for all, ths ' extension of slavery to soil now free, and : the further propagation of the pro-slavery j interest, to the injury alike of bond and free. It is not such a state of things that the question is addressed, what Bhall we old : Democrats do, and where shall we go? For my own part, I find in such a crisis but one refuge consistent of duty. . I cannot continue with the organization still claiming the name of Democraoy: for both phases of il, at least in this State, have . evinced a subserviency to the pro-slavery interest, which is most intolerable to public sentiment, and both encourage aspirant for power and place, to agitate still this unhappy question, and still further slien. ' ate us from each other. : I cannot be silent and inactive any lon , ger. Aside from the experience of such a line of conduct, I recognize the duty which every citizen owes to himself and his coun ' try, to bear his share of administering the laws and performing the task of self-gov-' ernment. And particularly at such a crisis, forced upon us, as it has been by ths action of others, I cannot feel it to be right to consult my own ease, and to bend to the 3 storm until it shall expend its fury, but : rather to stand manfully by the ropes un--ti! the ship shall be brought safe into' harbor.Action then at this juncture, being a "' matter of duty, where can we act, save with those who are now banding together to arrest the further progress of slavery and its attendant ills? I confess I can see no other alternative, and I embraco it the more readily because it seems to me I can thus most effectually advance those principles which hitherto , commended the Democratic party to my af? . fection namely, the perpetuity of our Un? ton, ana the greatest good ot tne whole. I am therefore prepared to go with this new organization, whose representatives met at Pittsburgh on the 22d inst, I have no fears for the result. Painful as it may be to sever old ties, which habit has made agreeable, it will ' soon be evident that our association will yet bb with our old principles, though Bep-erated from our old name. Even the South will ultimately acqui-- esce; for they will discover that our action will be indeed their own protection against -. the agitation and its evil consequenoes, so . often and persistently of late thrust upon them by pretended Iriends. The north, and indeed the whole coun- try, will behold in our action our only le? gitimate defence ngainst a course of policy which has already produced so much air ienation, and promises still more in the fu-lure. ' . . f I therefore embrace the Republican or- i ganization and its fortunes, with an abi- i ding confidence that out of it will yet flow . union, safety and freedom to the whoja country. Come you too, my friend, and as for a ' quarter of a oentury, we have been togethr er struggling for the advancement of man's true freedom, let us continue together to the end. Come, and labor in the cause; ' for you can, with the most fraternal feel. ' ing for all classes of our people. Come 1 .'. for you fill here find your old associates . as well as your old principles, and will be able to achieve more than ever for that " freedom of thought and action which is so ' dear to us both. ; . i I am, as ever, very truly, your friend, a J. W. EDMONDS..,. ;i What" law! ' ' It is like fire, and those who meddle 1 with it may chance to 'burn their fingers. J Iyaw is like an eel-trap very easy to j get in, but very difficult to get out of. , Law is like a lancet dangerous in. the hand of the ignorant; doubtful eyen fn ths hands of an adept. . A Law is like a sieve you may see Uiroi. it; but you will be considerably reduced bj-, ' fore you can get through it. , "r Law i like an Ignia fatqus, or jack of; Lantern thoe. who follow the delusive' guide too often find themselves inextriea-v biy involved in a nog or quagmire. ' 1 1 ,t Law i like prussio acid a dangerous T remedy and the mallest dots is generally Mitaiu a rerjr da t Piatt '. Y., in r-ct of af ler h "0crT 14 r. r :A at ,

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CTA.11 transient advertisements to be paid in advance, and none will be inserted unless for a definite time montioned AGENTS. The following persons are authorized to re. eeive money on subscriptions for The Rkpudli cam, ana receipt tnereior . Dr. J. B. Ccocxr, Homer, Ohio. , Oio. Mooai, ' Ratmoxu Buaa, Jt S. D. JoXKa, 'David Ris, HiMar L. Osbosm, Thomas Haxck, W.O.STaoxo. " Rev. T. M. Finnit, Utica, Delaware, Granville Cbesterville, Bennington, Marengo, Fredericktown, Martinsburgh, Danville, )Jno. Satt, ' . From the ManBfield Herald. A SONG OF KANSAS. . BY J. M. JOM.V. Itus ye freemen I up ye brave And gird your armor on ! reuse ve sons of patriot Biros I Vj. sons of Washington I Awake ! awake ! do ye not hear ; The shouts of ruffian bands, Who sacrifice on freedom's bier The noblest of our laud ? Hark ! hear you not your sisters cry, . Borne o'er the western plain T Oh I will ye stand supinely by And tee your brothers slain ? Are ye the sons of patriot sires -. Who died for liberty ; And will ye quench pure freedom's fires, And tow to slavery? Shall that fair land, fret since the dawn Of fair creation's morn, And destined for the happy homes Of millions yet unborn, Tct echo with the pleading groans And cries of tortured slaves ? Turbid it, Oh our fathers shades, Oh God, our country save. Aid, aid, for those who join the strife, Aid for friends and brothers ; Aid for the atrieben widowed wife; Aid the childless mother. Yield not, flinch not, brothors, friends. But with a freeman's might Strike for your homes, fear not the end, . . Ye battle for tho right. "Pp 1 op t ye freemen ! up ye brave I And gird your armor on, Arouseye sons of patriot sirea t Up I sons of Washington. BY AND BY! 1 " BY PAVID B.VTIS. fhere is an angel ever near, When toil aid trouble vex and try, That bids our fainting hearts take cheer, ; v And whispers to us "By and by," We hear it at our mother' knee. With tender smile and love-lit eye She grants some boon or childish plea, In these soft accents "By and by." What visions crowd the youthful breast ' What holy aspirations high ,J?erve that young heart to do it best, And wail the promise "By and by." 'The maiden lilting sad and lone,' ' ' f " : Her thoughts half uttered with a sigh, . Kuraes the grief she will not own, ' . , ' And dreams bright dreams of-"By and by." 'The pale young wife dries up her tears, ' u 'And still her restless infant's cry, 'To eatch the Coming step, hut hears, How adly whispered "By and by." , Aid maahood with his strength and will f : '" To breast life' ilia and fate defy, Though fame and fortune be lis, still t Ha pUos.that lie in "Bj. anby." ", The destitute, whoee Scanty fare ' ' " " Ths weary task can scarce supply, Cheat the grim visage of Despair ' ; With Hope's fair promie "By and by." ....... - :' The million whom oppression wrong , , r Send np (o heaven their wsiling cry, , ' ' And writhing in the tyrant's throngs,'"'." ' ' SUU hope for freedom "By and by ' ' .... . . - i .'.: 3(,n.i "i . :i. i:. u Thn ever o'er life' rugged, way, . ( J )" Thi Dgl, bending from the sky, 4" gaiM our sorrows, auj oj u 1 Wltfthetiwertwhlsperiog'By !.", '.Plain Truth. An Affeoting Scene In a Western loj; Truth not Fiction . Meeilug of stockholders CAS8ITJS M. CLAY. '-' ' Cabin. nw tttk nnrn avti pmvv. n. n The following from the Enter Nows Letter, expresses stern truths which every Northern man ought to lay to heart: The same power which threatens Kansas, with the most despotio control over its liberty of thought, words and actions can reach us too and can ordain, that unless all these godlike gifts of our nature are con Gnned to Southern policy and to a wickedness which makes the world shudder, we loo shall have brought to our subjugation some portion of that "military power" which is even now, we presume on its fearful march, to crush the little army of martyrs, who are struggling to plant the banner of freedom on the beautiful plains of the great West, That banner was fearfully Towered in New England, when her Senator dared make his first compromise with Southern sin and infamy; it has since been draggled in the blood of poor fugitive who sought the shelter of our bills ana mountains. We have been frightened by Southern threats npd charmed by Southern descriptions of the beauties of slavery into slaves. We have yielded one point after another, until there is but a tare point left, whereon we ourselves may stand. We gave the South a. resident who has distinguished himself by a sub serviency and want of principle, beyond even the most sanguine hopes of his slave-holding patrons. We gave up our free soil, our rocks and our mountains, to the slave-hunter and his blood-hounds. We relinquished our right, and with it our power to protect a fellow creature, though he might come to us with his poor body covered with scars of a whole life's bondage and his soul crushed by a cruelty, unpnr-olelltd even in hell. We see mothers, taking the lives of their own children, when the choice is death, or the slavery they have just escaped from and our arm is paralyzed by on act of Congress, so that we may not defend them and in Kansas the time is soon coming when even to look protection or sympathy, will bring down upon the offender, such force as will be ready at hand lor such crime against the majesty of Southern military law. We by our votes, have helped make 'that law and it will react unless suppressed in Kan sas, upon us. we nave piayea the part or La Fontaine s rat in the cheese, ana be cause we could sit under our own vine and fig tree, and the evil ha9 not come to our firesides, we have persuaded ourselves that it did not exist, and it has been fashiona ble, to stigmatize those who believed in the great doctrine of retribution and in the rights of three millions of slaves, whose only offence was the different tinge of their skins as "radicals abolitionisis and fa natics." The end is not vet and the time may not be far distant, when, if deliverance does come from our present degradation, the Saviors of our country will be found among the ranks of those, who are now a by-word and reproach. It is fearful to think what tremendous issues, may depend upon the vote of New Hampshire at her next election. May God so open the eyes of her citizens to the fearful crisis in our country's existence that throwing aside all party distinctions and party selfishness, for office, they may come up to the help of the weak against the mighty, and may redeem our country, before it is too late, from a curse nnd a sin, which now sits on her like an incubus of Hell. mistakes of a Night. The following ludicrous incident occurred, recently, on board the night train from New York. Two married couple took their seat in the cars at 'New York bound for Boston, in ch ae proximity, and about 0 o'clock they both indulged in balmy slumbers, the heads of their wives reslin upon their husbands' shoulders. When the cars reached Worcester, the gentleman stepped out, and the ludics, apparently exhausted, slept on. The delay was brief, and on entering the cars, the husbands whose eyes were scarcely opened, exchanged seats, and in a few moments resumed their natural positions, and were in the Ian of dreams. At Farmingham the oars stopped again, when one of the ladies asked: "Will you have time to get mo a drink of water here?'.' The affrighted gentleman, not recognizing the music of his wife's voice exclaimed! .. "By heavers, have I made a mistake? This is not Tilly!" "No," excluimed the lady, and you ain't my husband!" "Perhaps we had better change seats," exclaimed the husband in the seat immediately in the rear, who had awoke, for "there's a slight mistake here." The second lady, too much fatigued, did not awake, and as the temporary husband endeavored to shift his burden so as to move she merely ejaculated, impatiently "Do keep still." : , Badly Cornered. . A traveller, fatigued with tho monotony of loner ride through a sparsely settled sec tion of country , rode up to a small lad who was eneaced in trimming and dressing out a sickly field of corn, and relieved himself thus: i.. ; '. "My young friend, it seems to me your corn is rather small." "Yes, daddy planted the small kind." : ' "Ah; but it appears to look Tather yellowish too." 1 'Yes, sir, daddy, planted the yellow kind.'' "From present appearances, my lad,'you won't aeX more than half a crop." : "Just half, stranger daddy planted it on halves." " ' The horseman nroceded on his war, and ha not been known to speak to a boy since, He calls them, bores. , ., , . , , r t "'." ' Hi Mill The Bible is the only true guide to conscience, - May neither spirit nor tne let ler of it teaching be excluded from our puDJiq school .MPa ,.j ,,: ,, .i, BoTAHicAt.-p'The tree, la known by its wood.wWcb it knowri by U ; It was nearly midnight of Saturday night that a messenger came to Col. 8 requesting him to go the cabin of a settlor some three miles down the river, and see his daughter, a girl of fourteen, who was supposed to be dying. Col. S. awoke me and asked me to accompany him, and I consented, taking with me the small pack ace of medicines which I always carriod in the forest ; but I learned soon there was no need of these, for her disease was past cure. "She is a strango child," said the Col.; "her father is as strange a man. Tbey live together alone on the bank of the riv cr. They came here three years ago, and no one knows whence or why. He has money, and is a keen shot. The child has been wasting away for ayear past. I have seen her often, and she seems gifted with a marvellous intellect, bhe seems some times to be the on v hone of her father." We had reached the hut of the settler in less than half an hour, and entered it reverently. The scene was one that cannot easily be forgotten. There were books and eviden ces of luxury and taste lying on the rude table near the small window, and the bed furniture on which the dying girl lay, was as soft as the covering of a dying queen. I was, of course; startled, never having heard of these people before; but knowing it to be no uncommon thing lor misanthropes to go into the woods to live and die, I was content to ask no explanations, more especially as the death hour was evidently near. She was a fair child, with masses of long black hair lying over the pillow. Her eyes were dark, piercing, and as they met mine she started slightly, but smiled and looked upward. I spoke a few words to her father, and turning to her, asked her if 6ho knew her condition. "I know that my Redeemer liveth," said she in a voiae whose melody was like the sweetest tones of an Eolian. You may imagine that her answer startled me, and with a few words of like import, I turned from her. A half hour passed, and she ppoke in that same deep, richly melodious voice: "Father, I am cold; lie down beside me," and the old man lay down beside his dying child, and she twined her emaciated arms around his neck, and murmur ed in a dreamy voice, "dear father, dear father." "My child," said the old man, "doth the flood seem deep to thee?" "Nay, father, for my soul is strong." "Seest thou the other shore?" "I see it, father; and its banks are green with immortal verdure." "Hearest thou tho voices of its .inhabitants?""I hear them, futher, as tho voices of angels falling from afar in the still and solemn night-time; and they call ine. Mother's voice, too, father, oh, I heard it then!" "Doth she speak to thee?" "She speakcth in tones most heavenly." "Doth she smile?" "An angel smile! But I am cold cold cold! Father, there's a mist in the room. You'll be lonely, lonely. Is this death, father?" Praying to the Point. A certain lawyer who, whilom, dwelt in one of our New England towns, noted for bis over-reachings and short-comings, during a revival came under conviction, and requested prayers for the furtherance of his conversion. His appeal was responded to by one of the saints, an eccentric but very pious old man.honest, plain, blunt, square-toed and flat-footed, who thus went at it: "We do most earnestly entreat thee, O, Lord, to sanctify our peniient brother, here; fill his heart with goodness and grace, so that he shall hereafter forsake his evil ways and follow in the right path. We do know, however, that it is lequired of him who has appropriated worldly goods to himselt uniawiuiiy ana dishonestly, that he shall make restitution four-fold; but we do beseech thee to nave mercy on this our erring brother, as it would be impossible for him to do that, and let bim off for the best he can do without beggaring himself entirely, by his paying twenty-five cents on the dollar." The next supplicant at the same meeting was an elderly maiden who got her living by going into different families and spinning for them., one, aiso, naa oeen famous for her short-comings never giving full counts on her yarn; the forty threads to a knot was a point which she never reached. The blunt old man thus briefly disposed of her case: "Reform, O, Lord, the heart of thy handmaid here before thee we beseech thee; and wilt thou enable her to count forty!" Boston Pott. Human Life. Prof. Longfellow says of human life: "Ah, this is a beautiful world; indeed I know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and heaven is not far off; and then it changes suddenly, and it is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the sky. In the lives of the saddest of us there are bright days like this when we feel we could take the world in our arms. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn in our hearts or hearths, and all without and within is dismal, cold and dark. Every heart has its secret sorrow, whioh the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." j ; ; . A Queer Sebmon. An old preacher once look for his text, "Adam, where art thou ?" and divided tho subject into three parts. 1st. AH men are some where. Sd. Some men are where they ought not to be. 3d. Unless they take care, they will soon find themselves where they would rather not be. ... . ' .'. ; ' ' i . i m i i - , . ,9It too often hapens, that a man is more respected; for wealth than for his nriw' ..; .' ; '' :'- ' "' -';''; The following home thrust is from the Cayuga Chief, at the rum-sellers and tho friends of the restaurant ; "Would to God that the Maine law could have passed fifty years ago." We turned to find an old lady on the seat back of us, venturing her wish in tho midst of an earnest discussion between a Maine law Yankee and a red nosed member of the bottle fraternity. "Yes," continued the old lady, "fifty years ago. My husband would not Lave then crone down into a drunkard' crave, my daughters mar ried drunkards and lived lives of sorrow, or my boys have died in jail or in the mad bouse. Look at me," and with something of a fire kindling up rn her old eyes, she laid her bony hand on the arm of the liq uor dealer, "and see a wreck of vour ao. cursed business. I was young, had enough of this World's goods, and my heart was full of happiness and hopel My God, sir, how they. have poured desolation into this old heart! 1 am often bitter, and do you wonder? Such as you robbed me of all my children, and at eighty years of age, I am alone do you hear? alone! And let me tell you, this hand never wronged the least of God's creatures. But you wronged me. You, sir, talk about the domicil and say t's sacred. God forgive; but I remember the day when my home was en tered by constables and skinned of all. I remember when the Bible my mother gave me was taken for drink. I remember when my first born was laid in my arms from a drunken husband's hands and its little life blood ran warm into my bosom from its wounds. Why, sir," and the old woman half raised in her seat, "in God's holy name did you come into my house to rob and kill? Was that constitutional? I have one child living in the asylum a maniao. It's all the work of your hands. There is blood there! Blood, sir! Better, sir, have a millstone around your neck than to sell rum. The curse of the widow is upon you. It will follow you. The serpents that you send out will return to destroy you and yours. Give me that bottle!" Involuntarily as it almost seemed, the liquor dealer handed the old lady the bottle which he held in his hand. She dashed it out of the car window and slowly took her seat. The people who had crowded around while the car was stoppinor, to hear the conversation, slowly and thoughtfully dispersed to their seats, and the now cowering liquor dealer looked the very embodiment of humiliation and shame. With a deep sigh ho turn ed away, our own faith made stronger by the ssrmon we had listened to. Ahl how many would have escaped the bitterness ot life, had rum been banished in their day. NOBODY. If nobody's noticed you, you must be small, If nobody's slighted you, you must be tall ; if nobody's bowed to you you must be low, If nobody's kissed you you're ugly, we know, If nobody's envied you you're a poor elf. If nobody's flattered you flatter yourself. If nobody's cheated you you are a knave, If nobody's hated you you are a slave, If nobody's called you a "fool" to your face, Somebody's wished for your back, in its place; If nobody's called you a "tyrant" or "scold," Somebody thinks you of a spiritless mold, If nobody knows of your fault but "a friend," Nobody'U miss of them at the world's end; If nobody clings to your purse like a fawn, Nobody '11 run like a hound when it's gone; If nobody's eaten his bread from your store, Nobody'U call you "a miserly bore;" If nobody's slandorcd you here is our pen Sign yourself Nobody, quick as you can. Sunday Schools. The Methodist have found by careful at tention to the statistics of their body, that the Sunday school is the great nursery of the Church. An exchange says: "The number of hopeful conversions in the Sunday Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the past year, wasseventeen thou sand four hundred and ninety-four, or more than half the net increase of the member ship of the Church, which was thirty thou- sana seven nunarea ana uuny-iwo. inuring the last eight years.the aggregate number of hopeful conversions in their Sunday Schools, was between ninety-four andninety-five thousand, or one eighth of the whole present membership of the church." Campbell, of Ohio. We bee; to say to those Know Nothing editors who are concluding from Mr. L. D. Campbell s speech at the Know Noth ing ratification meeting in this city on Wed-1 nesday night last, mat lie ana tuose oi nis State he represents (as an American party leader) are about to support Mr. Fillmore, that they reckon without their host. He is clearly, perfectly willing that the Fillmoreites of Washington shall shout his own praises when appearing before them to berate the Pope, tho Irish, and the Dutch. But he has not the slightest idea of throwing his influence, or the weight of his exertions, in the Presidential canvass, in favor of any man who may not be nominated by the Republican party proper. He is evidently playing with the National Know Nothings, so that when he does come out in favor of the candidate who stands with him on the slavery question, he will carry to that individual's support as large a number of the Trimble and Scott Harrison class of Ohio Whigs, as possible. ' It has become, we take it, apparent to all, that his opposition to the Republican party manager before a Speaker was chosen, was an affair personal to himself only; not being dictated by a difference on his part with them with reference to a single measure or principle.By-the-by, we should like to bear the explanation! that may be given on the stump in Richmond, Raleigh, or Nashville, by Know Nothing orators, or the deafening shouts that went up in the Know Nothing ratification meetinz in this city over the speeoh of Mr. Camobell. It strikes us that our Know Nothina fellow-citiien of Washing ton hardly yet know where they stand on the leading issues of the daywhether with Mr. Campbell or agsiast him. Wath. No Assistance for Conneotioni West, STOCKHOLDERS TO BE ALLOWED TEREST ON THEIR STOCK. IN. An Issue of 250,000 Worth of Bond Authorised, 1 i ' i i ! An adjourned general meeting of the stockholders of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, convened, agreeably to call, yesterday, at ten o'clock, at the rooms of the company, on Fifth street. On motion of Gen. Robinson, Gen. Dwight Jam's, of Ohio, was called to the chair, and Mr. N. Veedcr appointed Secretary.After beinc nronerlv organized. the meet ing adjourned to the Board of Trade Rooms. Gen. Robinson, chairman of the com mittee to whom the matter had been referred at the annual meeting in January last, presented the following report, embodying the views of a majority of the committee: At the annual meeting of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, held on the 24th of January, 18S6. the stockhol ders appointed a committee, to whom two subjects were referred, and directed them to report at an adjourned general meeting, to be held on 30 days' notice, which was given, and the meeting called for the 11th of March. The first subject referred to the commit tee related to the Springfield, Mt. Vernon and Pittsburg Railroad, and the second to the Darlington and Newcastle. Uoe of the resolutions of stockholders required the engineer of this company to examine and report upon the condition of the a. M. v. fc V. It, R which has been done, and his report of the directors of this company, and printed with it, is the condi tional agreement entered into on the 7th of November, which tho Mt. Vernon company ask this company to confirm. witn regard to the payment of the un paid balance, beins $33,600 vet due of 8100,000, made by this company to the M. V. company, tho committee believe the contract entered into between tho two companies at the time when the subscrin tion was made, is binding upon both, and whenever its terms are complied with by tne ju. v . company, they must be by this company. I. hey believe, however, that an arrange ment can be made by which this company may avoiu tne inconvenience ol paying in cash the remaining instalments. The conditional quadruple agreement of the 17tb of November was entered into by the President of the P. R. R. company, the O. & P. R. R., the L. M. R. R., and the8.M.V. &P. R.R. company. Its objects are clearly set forth in the documents which have been laid before the stockholders, and it is for them to say whether they tnina mat tne interests ot this company would be promoted thereby. Its object is to complete a new, short and greatly improved line to Cincinnati, which has been long contemplated by this company, and is, we believe, essential to its full success. The amount of aid asked for is $60,000, for which $100,000 of the 7 per cent, mortgage bonds of the M. V. company are prepared to be given. To render the agreement binding it must be assented to by all the four companies forming this grand line. The Little Miami company has already given its assent. In view of the importance of the line, especially as a means of insuring a large local business now lost to this company, and as a protectorate against future com petition for the Cincinnati and Louisville business, the committee recommend the adoption of the following: Jiesolved, That the President of this company be authorised and instructed to confirm and carry out the conditional agreement of the 7th of November last in relation to the S. M. V. & P. R. R., provided that the permanent debt of this company shall not be augmented thereby, and the same can be arranged without financial em barrassment. The committee have also considered the subject of the Darlington and New Castle Railroad, which was brought before the stockholders by the Board of Trade of Pittsburgh. Every recommendation of that highly respectable body is worthy of care- lul consideration, while the committee is constrained to believe that this company is not in a condition, at this time, to aid any company in which it is not interested, but as stockholders, they are free to say that whenever the road from New Castle to Dar lington, a distance of 13 miles, is prepared lor the iron, by local subscription to its stock, they believe that this company ought to render such aid as its circumstances may permit, to procure the iron to complete the road. Pilttlurgh Post. The Germans Moving. A large and enthusiastic meeting of Ger mans opposed to the extension of Slavery, wan held at Cincinnati on the evening of the 14th inst. Councilman Hassaurck addressed the meeting, and urged the Ger mans to range themselves on the side of freedom in the next Presidential election. The following pithy resolution, among others was adopted: 6. "That in Republics, to labor for free dom should never be a crime. A President who cannot discriminate between efforts for liberty and those for slavery, and pronounce both equally criminal, evinces only his total incapacity to be tho chief magistrate of a free people. Charles Keemelin, iq. addressed the meetim? in oonosiiion to the Nebraska bill. the Miami Tribe, and the pro-slavery tendencies of the democratic party.' ' . . X-The New York Express says: "Balls, weddings, dinners, parties of all kinds prevail. Extravagance greater than ever. Jewels and diamonds more abundant. Even 112,000 Russian sable capes are now seen in the streets! .California gold is making fool of us." . . . . How to get a good wife take a smart girl, and go to the parson. ' ';! . . v . ..' v -J ' , . ' it 1A ; ,. :. CAS8IU3 M. CLAY. KENTUCKY APPEALS; A Southern correspondent of the Norti cm Christian Advocate gives the following as Cssius M. Clay's mode of managing his Kentucky audiencies by "moral suasion." It is characteristic of that chivalrous, tal ented gentleman. There is no doubt of his being "pluck." He sends an appointment to a given place to lecture at a certain time; perhaps some of the natives will send word that he will not be allowed to lecture there; he sends word back that he will lecture there according to previous notice. The time comes, a great crowd is coiuctea to near the lecturer, or Bee the mon; presently tue lecturer comes, he passes directly through the crowd, mounts me iorum, waves ins hand for attention, all eyes are turned to ward tho sneaker. He commences with a firm, clear and decided tone of voice the following remarks: "Gentlemen, says he, i nave a tew pre Iimlnaiies to settle, previous to entering unon the main subject of discussion. I want to make three short appeals to three classes of persons, whereupon he holds up a small Bible. There, gentlemen, says he, is the great charter or record of human rights, on which all laws of equality are based deserving the name of law this is my appeal to the religious portion of societyand lays it down on the stand before him. Then he holds up the Constitution of the United States. Here, gentlemen, says he, is the bond of our Union, the noble Constitution of our glorious Republic, which says that all men are born free and equal, with certain inalienable rights, tc. This is my appeal to gentlemen, to patriots, and all true-hearted Americans, and places it with the Bible before him. Then he puts his hand into his pocket and brings out an enormous six shooter, holding it up before the audience he exclaims: And here, gentlemen, is a six shooter, every barrel of which is heavily loaded with pow-der and cold lead. This is ray appeal to the mobocrats, and I will blow its contents through the heart of the first man who offers to lay his hands on me to silence me in my native State, or to gag free speech in my presence. This he lays down upon the stand with his former appeals, ready for action; then he commences a perfect storm against the peculiar institution; enough to wring a sweat of old Kentucky from every pore. By this time all are awed into submissive silence. Such, sir, is the celebrated nephew of Old Henry Clay in his own State." Sketch of John Calvin. If personal considerations chiefly win ap plause, then no one merits our sympathy and our admiration mote man uamn; me young exile from France, who achieved an immortality of fame before he was twenty- eight years of age; now boldly reasoning with the King of France for religious liberty, now venturing as an apostle of truth to carry the new doctrines into the hearts of J i ,i e. .1.. f. Italy, anu naraiy escaping irom tue iury 1 . " . .1 . . ! Ot a papal persecution; me purest writer, the keenest dialectician of his country;push-inp- free inquiry to its utmost verge, and yet valuing inquiry solply as the means of arriving at hxed conclusions, ine ngnt oi his geniou&jcattered the mask of darkness which superstition had held for centuries before the brow of religion. His probity was unquestioned, his morals spotless. His only happiness consisted in his task of glory and of good: for sorrow found its way into all his private relations. He was an exile from his country; he became for a season an exile from his place of exile. As a husband he was doomed to mourn the premature loss of bis wife; as a father he felt the bitter pang or burying bis own child. Alone in the world, alone in strange land, he went forward in his career with serene resignation and inflexible firmness; no love of ease turned him aside from his vigils; no fear of danger-relaxed the nerve of his eloquence; no bodily infirmities checked the incredible activity of bis mind: ana so ne conunuea year after year, solitary and feeble, yet toiling for humanity, till after a life of glory, he bequeathed to his personal heirs, a fortune, in stocks and money, not exceeding two hundred dollars; and to the world a purer reformation, a republican spirit in religion, with tho kindred principles of re publican liberty. oeoroe banchoft. A Good One. The following is from Rogers' Table-talk:Doctor Fordyce sometimes drank a good deal at dinner. He was summoned one evening to see a lady patient, when he was more than halt-seas over, anu con scious that he was so. Feeling her pulse, and finding himself unable to count its beats, he muttered, "JJrunit, oy - r Next morning, recollecting the circumstance, he was greatly vexed; and just as he was thinking what explanation of his behavior he should ofler to the lady, a letter from her was put into his hand. "She too well knew," said the letter, "that he had discovered the unfortunate condition in which she was when he last visited her; and she entreated bim to keep the matter secret, in consideration of the inclosed," (a hundred pound note.) ii hi XyEitocoH Saio." A Gentleman once wrote to a lady whom be had offended by his dilatoriness, and who for a long lime had refused to speak to him. Hi letter was earnest in supplications for for eiveness. Itconoluded with "one word from your lips will make me happy. When and where will you speak it?" ber answer was "next Wednesday at the al tar." To which he sent the following re ply: "I will be there." ; : Qoaia. "Well, Jane, this i a queer worldl" said a tart ipota to hi wife, at breakfast, the other morning. "A set of women philosopher hare just sprung upl" "Indeed," said Jane, "and what do they hold?" "The strangest thing in nature' aid he; "their tongues!" : - ' - :!.- v :' 1 . C 1. .! i : ... . x Villus. .. ' - m ion thaepub Judge John W.ldmond. lican Purt The New York psper. able kilter from Judg Edmot oller, Esq., of Scheoeeedy, !ai fairb . ug j,n)Bnt political asnt in this country. Aa iu, .vmiwv, A lua Wl been a and dis. rity, his prominent and influential D- 'inguished for his talentaand h. ' views are worth considoriiiiff the presen crisis o, ow pBrtiflfc em "P00 the oou" of tha the i. V"J H"tion tL9 Jud his lei. toUnn: . ter comment South on the ...i,.j.. i:. Now, what is to B0, '"e " lhi and what is the renu . JT ' . ' : ' Not appealing to ti. 8 oth;. for theser: aggressions do not flow . rom. tnra: , Not by submitting long m 'lnce; for ; submission, as painful as it l ,a7 !y been-'' has only augmented, and notv diminished.' the evil: . ; : ' Not by laboring longer with e ther of" the old parties, for they have been alike torn to piesoa by the same subserviency,, ' and are now alike powerless for good Or for evil; " And the public sentiment all oyer the country is divided on this great question more than all others. Like Aron's rod, it swallows up all minor questions, and must continuo to do so until the aggressions on public feeling in behalf of thepro-slavery interest shall be arrested, and finally be . made to cease. ' . ! At length the feeling hostile to the ex-" tension of slavery is aroused in the land, and is driven in to activity by these repeatr ed encroachments upon it, and by the admonition which years of unavailing sub-mission have promulgated. At length those that have long entertained that feel-ing have been driven by action over which. they had no control into working in unison ; wiih each other, and to surrender all mjnor .. considerations all old party ties to the single purpose of arresting once for all, ths ' extension of slavery to soil now free, and : the further propagation of the pro-slavery j interest, to the injury alike of bond and free. It is not such a state of things that the question is addressed, what Bhall we old : Democrats do, and where shall we go? For my own part, I find in such a crisis but one refuge consistent of duty. . I cannot continue with the organization still claiming the name of Democraoy: for both phases of il, at least in this State, have . evinced a subserviency to the pro-slavery interest, which is most intolerable to public sentiment, and both encourage aspirant for power and place, to agitate still this unhappy question, and still further slien. ' ate us from each other. : I cannot be silent and inactive any lon , ger. Aside from the experience of such a line of conduct, I recognize the duty which every citizen owes to himself and his coun ' try, to bear his share of administering the laws and performing the task of self-gov-' ernment. And particularly at such a crisis, forced upon us, as it has been by ths action of others, I cannot feel it to be right to consult my own ease, and to bend to the 3 storm until it shall expend its fury, but : rather to stand manfully by the ropes un--ti! the ship shall be brought safe into' harbor.Action then at this juncture, being a "' matter of duty, where can we act, save with those who are now banding together to arrest the further progress of slavery and its attendant ills? I confess I can see no other alternative, and I embraco it the more readily because it seems to me I can thus most effectually advance those principles which hitherto , commended the Democratic party to my af? . fection namely, the perpetuity of our Un? ton, ana the greatest good ot tne whole. I am therefore prepared to go with this new organization, whose representatives met at Pittsburgh on the 22d inst, I have no fears for the result. Painful as it may be to sever old ties, which habit has made agreeable, it will ' soon be evident that our association will yet bb with our old principles, though Bep-erated from our old name. Even the South will ultimately acqui-- esce; for they will discover that our action will be indeed their own protection against -. the agitation and its evil consequenoes, so . often and persistently of late thrust upon them by pretended Iriends. The north, and indeed the whole coun- try, will behold in our action our only le? gitimate defence ngainst a course of policy which has already produced so much air ienation, and promises still more in the fu-lure. ' . . f I therefore embrace the Republican or- i ganization and its fortunes, with an abi- i ding confidence that out of it will yet flow . union, safety and freedom to the whoja country. Come you too, my friend, and as for a ' quarter of a oentury, we have been togethr er struggling for the advancement of man's true freedom, let us continue together to the end. Come, and labor in the cause; ' for you can, with the most fraternal feel. ' ing for all classes of our people. Come 1 .'. for you fill here find your old associates . as well as your old principles, and will be able to achieve more than ever for that " freedom of thought and action which is so ' dear to us both. ; . i I am, as ever, very truly, your friend, a J. W. EDMONDS..,. ;i What" law! ' ' It is like fire, and those who meddle 1 with it may chance to 'burn their fingers. J Iyaw is like an eel-trap very easy to j get in, but very difficult to get out of. , Law is like a lancet dangerous in. the hand of the ignorant; doubtful eyen fn ths hands of an adept. . A Law is like a sieve you may see Uiroi. it; but you will be considerably reduced bj-, ' fore you can get through it. , "r Law i like an Ignia fatqus, or jack of; Lantern thoe. who follow the delusive' guide too often find themselves inextriea-v biy involved in a nog or quagmire. ' 1 1 ,t Law i like prussio acid a dangerous T remedy and the mallest dots is generally Mitaiu a rerjr da t Piatt '. Y., in r-ct of af ler h "0crT 14 r. r :A at ,